Sammy Samir

Sammy Samir Graduated high school of arts in the major of theater, graduated at 1992 from the professional acting studio “Nissan native” in Jerusalem a four years diploma.
Born: 25 September 1972
Origin: Muslim born and raised in Jerusalem.
Currently living in Mexico City.
Languages: fluent Hebrew, fluent Arabic, fluent English, Spanish and French.

sábado, 17 de octubre de 2009

"The actors playing heavies enjoy far greater opportunities, so the male cast standouts are Barhom as rabble-rouser Ammonius and Samir as the dictatorial head of the Alexandrian church. "

The entire cast comes through very well after the shaky beginning, and while Minghella says little he has good screen presence. However, the biggest surprises are the lesser-known supporting actors: Isaac; Sammy Samir as a bishop seemingly devoid of human emotion; and Ashraf Barhom, whose Ammonious, a Christian Parabalani, is the epitome of a devout-less thug. (Hollywood Reporter)

THE MULTI CULTURAL RESEARCH CENTER International theater research course

STATEMENT OF THE “.MC.R.C”:

As part of our endeavor to create a cultural bridge between artists worldwide, we hope by exchanging knowledge with artists, theaters abroad, theater groups, cultural administrations, universities and other theater research organizations,to strive for a better and more complete stage quality per formative products and to enlarge the local creative artistic circle. The Multi Cultural Research center’s main concern is the “future” of performing arts of stage, and the true role of theater in contemporary life. The M.C.R.C’s realization that the need for developing the individual’s craft and intellectual capacity based on a wide knowledge relating to the human development is essential. By disarming the “doer” (actor, artist) from the well known and common approach to the creative process, by directing him to the fundamental basic approach we call “the seed of creation” , by providing a long and rigorous practice and study of materials that are connected to one’s own origin, tradition, culture and by orienting the individual to a broader panorama relevant to his personal/artistic life, we strive on planting the seed that will guide us to a new era - a term to be described as “renaissance artists” ,artists that not only hold within themselves the ability to perform in high level and complex shows , but are also artists that will serve as future guides, instructors, master teachers, master actors and researchers. As former acting students and teachers in one of the best acting institution in Israel and after many years of serving the contemporary mainstream theater we believe that the classic " acting studios contemporary pedagogic system" does not serve the aim in contributing to the individuals personal evolving, but on the contrary, the system is pulling him further away from his role as a craftsman artist, and as a result isolates him in the well known area of art as entertainment, responding to a harsh and violent edict of the “fast food entertainment industry”. Therefore one of our aims is to form and establish a tri- annual official research center, a high level platform that embraces and educates the new “renaissance actors” with the aid of a new educational program, creating a new form of acting studio based on two pillars we call “mysticism in performing art” and “doctrine of the art of stage”.

Sammy Samir

Sammy Samir History

Sammy Samir, the brother of the famous Egyptian (Israeli) singer Haya Samir and the son of the legendary Muslim Egyptian poet and writer Joseph Samir (Nabih Sarhan), is an actor who has appeared in films by directors such as Steven Spielberg (“Munich”), Ridley Scott (“Body of Lies”), and Alejandro Amenábar (“Agora”). A well-established actor in the film and theater industry in Israel, he has had both supporting and leading roles in films such as “Yellow Asphalt”, “Tahara” (God’s Sand Box), and “Cup Final”, and the director Uri Barabash’s “Behind the Walls – 2.”Sammy Samir – who speaks fluent English, Arabic, Hebrew, Spanish, and French - was born in 1972 in Jerusalem; graduated from the “School of Arts” with a major in theater and literature; and later studied for four years and graduated from the leading professional acting studio ”Nissan Native” in Jerusalem. He worked for three years in the famous Russian “Gesher” theater company with the Russian director Yavgeny Arye, playing the leading role of Don Juan in the play of the same name by Moliere. Samir has also played many roles in both mainstream and Fringe Theater. Along with his collaborator, the well-known Israeli director and actor Rabbi Baruch Brener, who worked as well with the famous Jerzy Grotowski, together they direct productions for their groundbreaking Israeli foundation “The Multi Cultural Research Center of Theater”, based in Jerusalem.Sammy Samir also works as the assistant researcher of Maud Robart, who was the main collaborator of the famous Polish theater director Jerzy Grotowski; with her he is conducting workshops and seminars in many countries (Poland, Colombia, Crete, France, Brazil), employing ancient traditional Afro-Haitian vibratory chants. Throughout his long, rich, and varied experience in theater, he has focused his craft on the deeper aspects of what he calls “the seed of creation” (an expression used by Jerzy Grotowski), relating to the multiple aspects of dealing with human phenomena.

Sammy Samir is applying in Mexico his long rigorous research in human development, creating a bridge both cultural and individual to his foundation in Jerusalem.

Samir is transmitting his program “Uno a Uno-Canalización de expresión y potencialización individual” for political leaders of opinion in Mexico and around the world. Applying his program “Efective Comunication and Potencializing skills” for universities and teachers oriented towards transformative education. Directing and teaching at the Iberoamericana University “The Art of the Origin as Transformative Art”, as well as at the “Nissan Native” acting studio in Jerusalem, exploring “The Study of the Tradition and Application to the Art of Stage”. He is currently living in Mexico City.